Orange Trumpet Vine (Tennessee Ecotype)

Campsis radicans Origin: Dandridge, Tennessee Improvement status: Wild Seeds per packet: ~50 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Perennial NEW FOR 2022. Orange Trumpet Vine is a much-loved woody climbing vine native to eastern North America. It produces large (3-5 inch) trumpet-like flowers beloved by hummingbirds and other pollinators (that's right: hummingbirds are pollinators). Trumpet vine follows up its flowers with long pods full of paper-thin seeds that flutter to the ground once the pods open up. Plants can take over a tree, or a building, or a fence, so best to plant these with intention. It can be trained into very effective and attractive ground-cover. Also said to have some medicinal uses (the root is considered diaphoretic — makes one sweat — and vulnerary — wound-healing). Despite a somewhat appetizing look, the whole plant should be considered poisonous and not ingested. Nate collected these seeds from the wild in Dandridge, Tennessee.GROWING TIPS: See